Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1940 — Page 2
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INDIANA'S ' ROLE UP FOR STUDY
A Program May Cost Half a Million, Coffin Tells Co-oper- - ative Group; Commission May Att as Clearing : House for State Setup. ~~... By NOBLE REED :
Defense legislation that may carry requésts for appro- ~ priatio®®€otaling as much as-half a million dollars, is being]
considered by State officials.
The necessity for extensive legislation for Indiana’s part in the nation’s preparedness program was stressed at
a meeting. of the State Commission . on - Interstate Cooperation at the Claypool
Hotel yesterday.
Governor Townsend, through his gecretary, Tristram Coffin, reported 5 to the commission that it may be ez selected the clearing house group to handle’ all defense bills.
Cites Needed ation
t These measures would include, according to Mr. Coffin, new legislation to combat sabotage in Hoos-
jer industries, especially those hans
| dling defense orders; a bill givig * gtate officials more powers to co bat fifth column activities and a third measure to provide for registration of firearms. The latter bill would enable authorities to trace the. ownership of weapons and high explosives. “Appropriations would be needed to administer many new defense agencies and to finance the newly organized home guard,” Mr. Coffin said. “In addition, the state will be asked fo help in the extensive planning work in small communities where their population is tripled by establishment of defense industries.” Frank: Bane of the National Defense Council, told the Commission that an appropriation of $750,000 was required for national defense planning in Louisiana recently.
Schricker Pledges Aid
The Indiana Commission on Interstate Co-operation is composed of Legislators from both houses of the General Assembly and the Governor recommended that all defense legislation be referred to them.
Governor-Elect Henry PF. Schrick- :
er addressed the Commission briefly, promising members that he would “underwrite” their proposals to the Legislature for laws that would prevent the erection of trade barriers with other states, “I urge that the people be made ~ mindful 6f the importance of removing trade barriers,” he said. “Indiana is a great exporting state and we need the tient of other - . states.”
BRIGGS, PLYMOUTH PLANTS SHUT DOWN
DETROIT, Nov. 30 (U. P.).—The Plymouth plant and the Briggs Manufacturing Co.'s Mack ‘Avenue { ~ factory were closed for the week- \ end today while officials of the companies and the United Automobile Workers (C. 1. O) ght to settle a dispute over a production Sched- . ule which idled 20,000 workers yesterday. The “Plymouth day and night shifts, totaling 10,000 workers, were sent home when the flow of automobile bodies fronr Briggs was halted yesterday afternoon. The two + shifts at Briggs, totaling 10,000, were sent home when 17 men in the panel assembly division quit as a gesture against dismissal of three shop stewards. i The dispute centered over the number of workers required for a new schedule to turn out 24 side panels. Briggs officials charged the stewards had ordered the workers ‘to “slow down” to 16 panels an
(+ LOCKRIDGE IS NAMED HEAD ROAD ENGINEER
. Earl B. Lockridge has been named { ' acting chief engineer of the Highway Comrission to replace Merton R. Keefe, who has resigned to take part in the national defense pro-
gram. T. A. Dicus, who announced the
personnel change? ‘said that Mr, Reefe has accepted a position as chief engineer of the Russell B. Moore Engineering Co., and will be in Sharge of of all engineering work 8 the ne Dpval ammunition base beed in Martin County. me Lockridge has been assistant to Mr. Keefe for the past two years and prior to that was assistant engineer in charge of maintenance. He has been with the commission since 1919, Of Mr. Keefe’s resignation, Mr. Dicus said: “Members of the com- ~ mission: feel that Mr. Keefe has , given valuable service to the motorists of Indiana in developing a modern highway system. . . . While we regret that his services are no Jonger available, we cannot but feel that his selection for the new position is a fitting recognition of his , successful record as chief engineer | of the highway system.”
~ FRENCH ACTRESS ~~ SUES BRITISH MATE
: HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 30 (U. P.).— ‘; Before France surrendered to Germany, while it’ was still land’s ally, the marriage of British film .gtar John Loder and his French actress wife, Micheline Cheirel, was ideal one. ' But when the English shelled the ‘French fleet and later the French West African port of Dakar, Mr Loder said today, his wife consulted an aftorney. Divorce papers
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DEFENSE
THE USUAL 2PCT. 1S ‘PERMITTED’
State Employees Learn That Club’s Disolution Brings ' No Relief.
Dissolution of the Democratic Two Per Cent Club will not mean much financial relief to State employees!
\| who for seven years have been pay-
ing dues at the rate of 2 per cent of their wages. This week the State workers who
notified that they will be “permitted” to make donations to the State Democratic Committee at the same old 2 per cent rate. Many of them regarded the dissolution of nationally-known Two Per Cent Club merely as a shift in
in the actual cash outlay, ‘Ordered Dissolved
The club was ordered dissolved by Governor-Elect Henry F. Schricker two weeks ago since the Republican controlled Legislature was preparing to do‘it by enactment of law. The club has existed for seven years under a special law that gave it immunity from the Corrupt Practices Act. In this immunity, the club never had to make a public accounting of its collections of expenditures. A Federal Treasury investigation Indiana several months ago was climaxed with a payment of $83,000 as deficiency taxes by Bowman Elder, former treasurer of the club.
$150,000 Yearly
The Democratic State Committee’s report of receipts and expenditures during the last 18 months showed that Two Per Cent Club contributions to the state committee amounted to about half of the $212,000 spent in the campaign. The club’s “take” has been estimated variously at from $150,000 to $200,000 annually from State employees.
OFFICERS ELECTED BY PURDUE GROUP
Louis W. Bruck was elected president of Indianapolis’ Purdue Dads’ and Mothers’ Association at its fall meeting last night at the American United Life Insurance Co. building. Other officers named are Mrs. Lawrence V. Sheridan, vice president; Mrs. A. J. Webber, secretary, and Fred K. Sale, treasurer. New executive committee members are Dr. L. S. Fall, Charles F. Meyer Sr., Ralph L. Nessler, Mrs. Clyde E. Osborne, Mrs. George W. Pittman and Dr. Albert Seaton, Dr. PF, B. Knight of Purdue warned the group not ‘to expect magic from a university in transforming any “lazy, vain, pampered and dull students into geniuses.” Other speakers were Paul F. Royster of Lafayette, national president of the Dads’ and Mothers’ association, and James L. Murray of Indianapolis, president of the local association and toastmaster for the dinner,
HINTS NAVY’S CHIEF JO VISIT COLOMBIA
BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 30 (U. P.).—An official order of the War Minister .suggested that Frank Knox, U. 8. Secretary of:the Navy, soon will visit - Colombia. The order granted permission for the U. 8. Navy Patrol plane, “XPB2Y-1” to use airdromes and otHer (facilities in Colombia, and said that “the plane would be piloted by Lieut. Gillespie, carrying a crew of six officers and three enlisted men and as passengers, the American Secretary of the Navy, Rear Admiral King, Capt. Deyo and Rear Admiral Cooke.”
The Butler University chapter of Sigma Chi will hold its diamond jubilee dinner Dec. 12 at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. : The Rho chapter was established here at the close of the Civil War through the activities of Leonard W. McCord, an ‘alumnus of DePauw. The charter, which still hangs in the Butler chapter house, is one of the oldest in the national fraternity. It is dated April 10, 1865. An honored. guest at the jubilee will be Dr. Frederick E. Scheuch, Battle Creek, Mich., national president. The chapter's Golden Legion, composed of men who have been
were paying dues to the club were
collection routine with no change
Back from a 10-day hunting trip in the Huron Mountains near Big Bay, Mich.,, Rex RE. Shera (left), 1614 Villa Ave, and C. A. Swords of the Swords-Morton Veneer Co. look over their “take.” two deer, one a spiked horn, the other an eight-point. = Mr. Shera weed a 32-caliber Winchestér Special rifle and Mr. Swords a 35-caliber Remington.
‘They got
FREE DEBATE OF ISSUES IS URGED
Willkie Calls for Toast to F. D. R. as He Ends N.Y. Speech.
NEW YORK, Nov. 30 (U. P)— Free and public discussion of national problems was urged last night by Wendell IL. Willkie “so - that democracy functioning as it should function will arrive at conclusions that will preserve that system for us.” \
“I hope to contribute ‘something to the constant raising of the elevation of public discussion in America,” the defeated Republican presidential candiate told the National Inter-fraternity Conference. “Because if we continue the process
United States in the last several years of merely destroying by such methods those men that democracy calls upon to lead it, we will begin the destruction of democracy itself.”
Proposes F. D. R. Toast
Mr. Willkie concluded his speech, his first since a post-election appeal to supporters of a “loyal opposition” to the Administration, by proposing a toast that “we drink fo the health and to the happiness of the President of the United States.” He interrupted a Florida vacation to attend the conference and plans to resume it Sunday or Monday. He said that tracing the history of democracy shows that it disappears under bankruptcy or longcontinued depression. Mr. Willkie reiterated that the United States must give “all out” aid to Great Britain “to preserve that rim of freedom which is gradually shrinking, -and which, if we permit it to continue to shrink, will shrink to the edges of our own shores.” Asks Frank Discussion
He sid he was appealing for frank public discussion of issues because “we must so lead the world in the next few years that peace again will come—not the peace of appeasement, but a peace in which democracy shall survive. . . .” Inspector Louis B. Nichols, administrative assistant to Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, asked the 400 fraternity delegates to help combat Fifth Column activities in colleges and universities in “the American way.”
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MRS. BERT HENDREN DIES IN BLOOMFIELD
Times Special BLOOMFIELD, Ind. Nov. 30.— Mrs. Bert Hendren, wife of a former examiner for the State Board of Accounts, died last night at her home here. She had been ill for some time. Services will be held tomorrow at the Bloomfield Presbyterian Church. Survivors include her husband, who has been prominent in state Democratic politics; a sister, Mrs. George M. King; three brothers, Raymond,
|Everett and Rover.
Butler Sigma Chi Chapter Diamond Jubilee Set Dec. 12
members of the fraternity 50 years or more, is: Charles B. Griffith, Aretas W. Hatch, Edward Charles Helm, Walter O. Williams, William A. ‘Wilson, John Effinger, William C. Johnson, Walter J. Hubbard, William C. Smith, Arthur Voorhees Brown, Lewis Anderson Frazee, Robert R. Sloan, Henry Poore Clarke, Edgar G. Barton, Edward Harman, Horatio N. Kelsey, William Glanton Irwin, Urban Cecil Mallon and Edward D. Kingsbury. Arrangements for the jubilee are in charge of Earl, T. Bonham, Howard Caldwell, Louis Hensley, William H. Walker, Wilson Daily, Horace Storer, Max Wildman, Evan Walker and Harold Ross.
that has been so prevalent in these|
Doomed Woman
‘Saved by U. S.
LONDON, Nov. 30 (U. P).— Government circles disclosed today that the intervention of United States representatives in Berlin had caused Germany to reconsider the death sentence imposed on an Englishwoman, Miss Winifred Harle, by a German court martial, She was accused of listening to foreign radio broadcasts and . distributing: British leaflets in Paris. : The Government was without information of Florence Frickard, also reported sentenced to death in Germany, and it was doubted that she was a British subject. During the World War United States authorities in| Brussels ihtervened futilely in the case of Edith Cavell, English nurse, who was executed by the Germans for “having hidden in her home English and French soldiers as well as Belgians of the age to bear arms, all desirous of going to the front.”
LUDLOW BABKS ECONOMY MOVE
“This Is No Time for Pork,’ He Writes; Lauds Stand of F. D. R.
Times Special WASHINGTON,, Nov. 30.—" “This is no time for pork!” With this phrase Rep. Louis Ludlow today placed his stamp of approval on President Roosevelt's plan to cut all but defense appropriations to the bone. Writing in the . Congressional
| Record, the Indianapolis. Congress-
man pledged all possible help in curtailing governmental expenditures as a member of the House Appropriations Committee.
Commends President
“I desire with all of the earnestness I possess to commend President Roosevelt for his determination to lead in a moveinent to cut the nondefense appropriations of the Seventy-seventh Congress,” Rep. Ludlow wrote. ~~ ¢ “Like many others, I never have been a believer in the theory that big spending is a gateway to national prosperity. On the contrary, I believe it is the gateway to national bankruptcy and disaster. “I am sure that the President’s proposal harmonizes with a sentiment that has long been predominant in the Appropriations Committee and that he can depend upon the co-operation of our Committee.
‘It Will Be a Tonic’
“The President’s announcement will be invigorating tonic to rehabilitate and revitalize the business and industrial elements which so much need to be built up to a normal state of health and activity if America is really to be prepared to face the perils of threatened war. “Economic strength and soundness is as much a sine qua non of preparedness as battleships and big cannon. A nation that is trembling on the edge of bankruptcy cannot be an effective fighting nation. It must have strong economic and financial fiber to stand the stress of war.”
SPONSORS DESTROYER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—(U. P.). —Navy Secretary Frank Knox has designated Mrs. Frances Emmons Peacock as sponsor for the destroyer Emmons, named in honor of her grandfather, the late Rear Admiral George Foster Emmons, The new destroyer will be launched at Bath,
ITWO FBI AGENTS
NOW IN LONDON
Observe European Methods To Combat Sabotage; Dies - To Ask Million.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (U. P.). —The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a two-man mission in London for several weeks studying methods used by the British Government to combat sabotage and espionage, it was learned today. The agents, not expected to return until after the first of the year, were said to have been batched by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover so that tested European anti-subversive methods may be incorporated in this country's protective program. Presence of the mission in London was revealed in the midst of efforts to settle the heated controversy between the Justice Department and Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee on un-American Activities, who last week. assailed the FBI's anti-fifth column efforts as inefficient and unsatisfactory. . R., Dies Confer Mr. Dies conferred: yesterday for 50 minutes: with President Roosevelt, and sought today to e a conference with Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, The Texan's recent blast drew a prompt reply from Mr. Jackson, who charged that Mn. Dies sought to undermine national confidence in the FBI. Subsequently, Mr. Roosevelt warned Mr. Dies that illadvised or hasty disclosures by the committee might destroy executive department efforts to combat subversion and “defeat the end of justice.” If Mr. Dies and Mr. Jackson meet, they will seek to bury past mutual recriminations, and to devise means of co-ordinating the work of the committee with that of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, "Seeks Million Mr, Dies said after his conference with Mr. Roosevelt, that he had “every reason to believe that we will receive co-operation from Government agencies.” He said he would introduce a resolution, when the next Congress meets, to continue the committee for two years. Heretofore, the resolutions have been introduced each year. He will ask “not less Ym $1,000,000.”
ORDERS BUTSCH BACK T0 INSANE DIVISION
Still legally insane, William Ray Butsch, suspected slayer of Mrs. Carrie "Lelah Romig here last year, has been ordered returned to the Indiana State Prison’s Criminal Insane Division. Butsch’s petition that he be declared sane was denied yesterday in Marion County Criminal Court by Special Judge Omar O’Harrow of Martinsville. Butsch testified he knew he was charged with murder in perpetration of a robbery and wanted to stand frial, but doctors said he was not sane. Drs. E. Rogers Smith and Murray
DeArmond of Indianapolis, who ex-| amined Bufsch gt City Hospital| Dr.
here, said he ha paranoia. Palmer Gallup of Michigan City also testified. Butsch, indicted . following Mrs. Romig’s slaying in January, 1939, was not tried on the charge, but in May, 1939, was ordered to the Criminal Insane Division by Judge O’'Harrow. He can petition for another sanity hearing in two years.
CARD PARTY SCHEDULED The Liederkranz Ladies Society will hold a public card party at 8 p. m. tomorrow at 1421 E. Washing-
ton St. Mrs. Henry Walters is general chairman.
Me., next June.
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ARBITRATION IN
DEFENSE LABOR STRIKES LIKELY
F.D. R., Commission Agree On Plan; Union Leaders To Be Consulted.
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Crea-
tion of arbitration machinery by the |
National Defense ‘Advisory @ Commission is the - method now considered most feasible within the Administration for meeting the problem of strikes in defense 'industries. This solution was agreed on tentatively by President Roosevelt and members of the Commission at their weekly meeting Thursday, learned today, subject to consifltation with labor leaders in the next few days. p The proposed arbitraty n agency would act in a purely voluntary capacity, without po of compulsion. x Administration officials’ who have jurisdiction in labor matters are agreeable to such procedure, it is learned, and many labor leaders have let it be known they are aware that strikes in defense industries might boomerang against labor bringing down repressive legislation.
Co-operation Sought
An effort will also be made to foster agreements among unions against ill-considered disputes or sudden strikes that would interrupt defense production. A co-operative spirit is reported to exist among union leaders. Congressional leaders | have advissd the President of the possibility that Congress, if provoked by a few more incidents like the Vultee Air-
craft strike, might pass legislation].
detrimental to the interests of labor. There is a manifest desire among anti-labor members to capitalize the defense emergency. A part of the Administration’s problem in seeking to keep industrial disputes at a minimum during
the emergency is the Dies commit- |
tee, which has aroused considerable Jaber hostility by some of its activies. Typical was the recent threat of Rep. Martin Dies (D. Tex.) to investigate the Vultee strike—the sort of gratuitous intervention that tends to antagonize both workers and employers and is likely to| increase,
rather than minimize, the tension incident to disputes’ of this char-
acter. Understanding May Result’
From Rep. Dies’ conference with
Mr. Roosevelt yesterday there is expected to result some understanding that will prevent any invasion by the committee of the executive functions of the Government.
Mr. Dies, it is known, will be able
to get additional appropriations from the House, which consistently has supported his investigation of |thg
Nazi, Fascist and Communist activities. He is proposing to ask for
a million dollars this time.
The problem, therefore, seems to
be one of moderating or restricting the committee’s activities, .
ACCUSED IN PLOT MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 30.—
Gustavo Cordoba, former minister of Honduras to Nicaragua, Adan
Cardenas, a former Nicaraguan Fi-
nance Minister, and four others were
arrested yesterdny on suspicion of having engaged in subversive activities, .
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Comely model Arabella (Bunny) Hartley “needs a good strapping,” she was told by New York magistrate William Ringel. He was irate because she haled her exhusband to court.on an assault charge and then withdrew the accusation. She later failed to appear to answer a-charge of disorderly conduct, and in general had things a-dither. She’s pictured after the judge gave her 10 days in the workhouse, suspend- + ed pending good behavior.
JURY RECALLED IN RELIEF PROBE
Knox Investigation to Be Reopened Monday; Fund Misuse Charged.
VINCENN. Ind. Nov. 30 (U4 P.) —Pros Oscar. P. Oexman said today th lox Gounty Grand
Jury will reconvene Monday to investigate alleged misuse of cennes township poor relief funds Trustee I, Grant Beesley. The Grand.Jury had delayed action pending completion of a similar investigation by Examiners of : the State Board of Accounts. Yesterday a report released by Edward P. Brennan, chief examiner, made 14 charges of alleged misuse by Beesley of funds totaling $13,017.60. Mr. Oexman said the report would be used in the investigation and the jury would hear board exPor us He said Glen Steckley, deputy attorney general, would help present the evidence. The total of funds improperly &xpended, he said, would be several thousand dollars more. than the figure reported by the board. ] According to the Board report, most of the alleged illegal expenditures were for medicines, gasoline
and medical service to county em-|
Strapping Needed?)
‘|of a report proposing closer co-op-
‘| Western Hemisphere defense and
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AF OFL. TALKS * 30-HOUR WEEK
May Be “Necessary After Defense Crisis Passes, Delegates Decide.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 30 (U. P), —American Federation of Labor convention delegates were on their way to their homes today, pledged to support the Government's national Hefense program and renew % efforts to restore labor peace. - The convention, in its closing session yesterday, reaffirmed faith in an eventual 30-hour work-week and urged official vigilance against “unwarranted and unjustified” en- d coachment on ‘the present 40-hour hy week. i One of its last acts was approval
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Good Neighbor policies. , Lewis is Derided
‘The closing note of the nine-day session was one of derision for John “L. Lewis, former C. I, O. president, and ridicule of last week’s C. I. O. convention at Ate lantic City. : “We conducted our convention in a dignified, orderly way,” President William Green said. “There was no appeal to the emotions, no distribution of noise-making instru- ded ments for the purpose of whipping: & "| the delegates into a frenzy, no pa~ 5 rading through the aisles. Here | men substituted reason for emotion. There was no hero worship.” Urge Work-Week Vigilance A. F. of L, delegates accepted a report which said it may be neces= sary, after completion of the Gove ernment’s defense, program, to seek the 30-hour week. Vigilance in defense of the 40- « hour week was urged in concert with the observation that some 1
fense emergency as an excuse to drive for longer working hours. When preparedness building is completed, the report said, “we may be confronted with an unemployment crisis greater than We §
“It may be necessary then for us | jod to work for such a drastic step”-as § = week, the report said. §
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ployees. The report revealed that no purchase orders for medicine had been filed or evidence furnished
that it pad been given the poor.
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